The
Mediateca is a media centre in the middle of Milan. As well as being
somewhere a lot of people come and do online research, they have a programme
of exhibitions, lectures, film screenings etc... The main hall is a huge
triple-height space that was an old chapel, where the main porch used
to be there's now a massive plate-glass window out onto a courtyard which
in turn opens onto the street.

I installed
the machine right in front of the window so the shredded paper would blow
straight at the window and settle in uneven drifts blown by the eddying
air currents hitting the glass.

The machine
was thoroughly reconstructed for the show (and some subsequent venues
which will be confirmed) so it looks a bit different to how it did in
previous installations.

It also differred
in occupying a public space that was not a gallery and was used by a varied
public, most of whom were probably unaware that the machine was going
to be there...

The machine
went through its sequence every 12 minutes, which is an unusual division
of the hour really. People in the mediateca would see it and go and look
after it had finished but would gradually work out the sequence and wait
and watch for it as it stamped and shredded the drawing it had been slowly
making...

There is a catalogue available, published by Wild Pansy Press,
ISBN 1 900687 22 4 with texts in English and Italian.